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Pete Hegseth accuses Iran of investing in missiles and weapons instead of people, during a speech in which he's asking for $200 billion for weapons, instead of people.

UPDATE: Kuwait shuts down parts of Al Ahmadi refinery after drone attack 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/gt5gwr?update=…

While we teeter on the brink of lasting damage to the world economy from Israel and America’s air campaign I can’t report any softening of Iran’s position here in Tehran: news.sky.com/story/iran-war…

In #Gaza, there is nowhere to hide. Strong wind, heavy rain, dust and heat make daily life unbearable in fragile makeshift shelters. For displaced people already facing extreme living conditions, the weather compounds the challenges they endure. Day in, day out, the struggle to survive continues.

Eid in Jerusalem, Palestine

Qatar produces a third of the world's helium, crucial for advanced chip manufacturing. "A severe shortage of helium – an essential component for manufacturing the advanced semiconductors that power modern data centres – threatens to stall the industry's exponential growth" datacentremagazine.com/news/us-iran-w…

Gaza: 96% of children say they feel death is imminent. After more than two years of war & relentless violence, young Palestinians face a deepening mental health emergency. Girls are at particular risk, including a rise in child marriage, @UNFPA reports. news.un.org/en/story/2026/…

Watch: Israeli police attacked Palestinians, gathering to pray outside Jerusalem’s old city, for the first day of Eid Al Fitr. Since the start of the war with Iran, Israel closed Al Aqsa compound and the other holy sites in the city

Jewish calls for genocide go unpunished in Israel. Arab citizens, meanwhile, are arrested for talking about Iran haaretz.com/opinion/2026-0…

Israeli forces attacked Palestinians with tear gas to prevent them from performing Eid prayers near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which has been closed by Israeli authorities since the start of the US and Israeli war on Iran.

🎥 Des soldats israéliens se sont récemment filmés en train de vandaliser une maison au Liban-Sud, où les combats se poursuivent entre l’armée israélienne et le Hezbollah. Ces vidéos rappellent notamment les centaines d’autres tournées à Gaza. Alors que l’enclave était pilonnée par Israël et au bord de la famine, des soldats israéliens se mettaient en scène sur les réseaux sociaux. Ces nouvelles vidéos, qui ont déjà suscité une vague d'indignation, sont-elles authentiques ? @WNlucile fait le point ⤵️

Araghchi trying to explain nuclear fuel production to Witkoff and Kushner at talks in Oman in February, because the US negotiators did not bring technical experts: Amwaj report: amwaj.media/en/article/ins… “Informed Iranian political sources familiar with the talks additionally highlighted that the lack of nuclear expertise on the part of Kushner and Witkoff, in addition to the absence of a technical team, caused consternation in the negotiations. According to the senior source, “Araghchi on several occasions explained the stages of nuclear fuel production and the difference between an enrichment facility and a reactor to Witkoff, yet the US negotiator still believed that the Tehran Research Reactor was an enrichment facility producing radio-medicines.”

As the world’s gaze is diverted by the US-Israel led war on Iran, the hardship in the Gaza Strip is intensifying: According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, aid to the Gaza Strip has decreased by 80% since the beginning of the war, and the crisis in Gaza is worsening. Following the decline in aid, there has been a sharp increase in the prices of basic food items, and hospitals are reporting a severe shortage of medicines and medical equipment.

Children in Lebanon are being killed or injured at the rate of a classroom every day, according to #UN agencies. At least 111 children have been killed, with 350,000 among over one million displaced.

Israel’s top diplomat in New York City says strikes like the one on Iran’s South Pars gas field were “part of the plan.” foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/19/isr…

Global recession appears more likely

'The Voice of Hind Rajab' Censored in India Amid Fears Theatrical Release 'Would Break Up the India-Israel Relationship' (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2026/film/glob…

The Danish military sent explosives and blood supplies to Greenland in January as part of contingency planning for a US attack, as tensions with Donald Trump escalated over his push to take control of the Arctic island. ft.trib.al/PPgFBYf

Breaking: In a major win for big banks, the Trump administration is pushing to loosen the capital restrictions put in place after the 2008 financial crisis on.wsj.com/3Nz7mwi